Quotes About Touring

Touring has been a new part of my life in a lot of ways. We've just been touring massively since the record came out and before. Learning how to write while all that is going on is a new thing.

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.

Mainly, life experiences with my family or travelling as a young kid, I feel like I had a different lifestyle than a lot of people leaving on tour when I was fourteen and stuff, so I pull from that.

Life on the road not easy. You live in the cold arena, hotel, airport day after day, you get tired, lonely very quick.

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

I want babies before I'm 25. I want to bring my babies on the road and bring them to concerts and raise them in the studio.

I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.

I think it's important to go out and gig all over the country, it makes you a better comic.

One of the things I loved about Black Sabbath was, when we were on the road, there were times we had been on the road for so long and we were tired and we were exhausted. We would show up at gigs and we were so tired that we would be fast asleep in the dressing room. Our road manager would come in and say, '20 minutes, guys.'

We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.

I work out a lot. I started to work out on the road as much as I can, but I work out a lot at home to keep myself in good shape.

I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

It's a hard road to hoe, doing one-nighters. I remember doing VFWs in Madison, Wisconsin. Those were pretty rough shows.

We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.

I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.